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Need recommendations on wall dividers or shoji screens or bookcases or SOMETHING. Also, i'm narrowing my choices down for the coffee table. Everyone keeps saying to push the sofa away from the windows, but how do I keep it in place? The books piling up on my nightstand is starting to get ridiculous.

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_kittenish_ says:

what about a bookcase as your divider? It seems like you have the books to put on it :) While I dont have personal experience with it, everyone at AT always raves about the Ikea Edpedit.
www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40047675

and yes, PLEASE move that couch off the wall. Mine isn't on a wall and I've never had trouble keeping it in place. The front two legs are on a rug and it sits there just fine.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

All About Eve says:

what are those lines on the floor?
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Belledame73 says:

Either the IKEA or those DWR translucent-ish ones. Whatever your budget allows. Why not put up the divider at the edge of the window frame (to allow walking room around the bed), and turn the couch so that the back is to the bed area and it faces the other windows?

Everything does not have to be against the walls.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

yardsale01 says:

Yes but the couch should really be pointed towards the tv :o
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

designisaverb says:

Check out my IKEA room divider hack in my photo pool. super easy and cheap. Takes up no space.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

yardsale01 says:

That's awesome! I might actually do that!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Belledame73 says:

You can view a television on an angle. You can also buy swivel stands to turn the tv easily when you want to watch it.

'Does it really need to be the focal point of your studio?
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

zero255zero says:

sweet studio..i use this for a nice little room divider www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30103916
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

yardsale01 says:

I think that ikea divider isn't sufficient for me, and I only like the yellow rice paper, not the brown look :(
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

michelleverdugo says:

does the sofa have to be on that wall at all? it seems like it would make more sense for you to turn the sofa so that it's facing your other chairs and the back would face your bed. it would create a more obvious division to the space.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

yardsale01 says:

yeah but having the tv on the wall with no real furniture facing it would make viewing utterly uncomfortable.

I think the ikea expedit bookcase would make the perfect divider, putting it where the red nightstand is now.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

gailvollrath says:

Turn the sofa so that its back is to the bed area. that will create a natural divider. If you can get a double wide bookcase to go in between you can use it for storage of books, clothes on the lower shelves and whatever you like. find an area rug about 5' x 8' to put partly under you sofa to keep it from sliding around and move the great yellow chair to the living area to accent your sofa.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

yardsale01 says:

still didn't address the whole tv thing...
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

polyesterlester says:

Here's some dividers for you to save your money for:

www.velocityartanddesign.com/product.php?prod uctid=17040&...

www.designpublic.com/shop/designers-eye/3412

www.bravespacedesign.com/product_tetrad_flat. php (this one's cool if you're a tetris fan)

And finally, an affordable one: www.target.com/gp/detail.html/601-7939464-134 4960?asin=B0...|Hudson_Geo_Shelf&ref=tgt_adv_XSC10001
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

polyesterlester says:

that last link didn't turn out so good. Here it is at Amazon:

www.amazon.com/Hudson-Geo-Shelf/dp/B000E1FDYI
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

winterberry says:

Not sure if this idea will help/work, but you could use some type of open shelving between the bed and couch and solve tv problem by placing tv on a turntable so that it can be turned to face either the bed area or the living area depending which place you are in.... just a thought. Good luck, I rearrange my furniture almost daily... it's a sickness!
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

winterberry says:

Duh!!! Forgot to mention (maybe it's obvious) that the turntable/tv would go onto the open shelving...
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

dovelybee says:

okay.... so i've read through the comments on a couple of your photos now and heres what i think may work.

put the couch in front of the window, rug in front of sofa. use these for wall dividers (they are straight panels you can use on the wire curtain rod system from ikea, which is the best way to hang curtains ever, esp if you are using the curtain as a divider, as such) www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40078148 . put the tv in front of the divider, parallel to the couch. put the chairs on either side of the tv. on the walls on either side of the couch, you could put the low profile expedits from ikea and prop art on top with table lamps. on the other side of the divider could go a dresser or something of the like.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

bw design says:

I love the floor!
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

ursonate says:

so what did you end up doing?

eta: nevermind! I clicked forward.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

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